Clubs receive Sports Sustainability funding boost

Sport NI have announced the full list of successful applicants for its Sports Sustainability Fund programme
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The Irish FA had been notified earlier this week that its application to the Sport NI Sports Sustainability Fund programme, for approximately £6.5m on behalf of football, has been successful.

The Sports Sustainability Fund is designed to provide much needed support to alleviate financial hardship as a result of Covid-19.

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The fund will play a crucial role in supporting sport to survive and emerge strongly from COVID-19, as the NI Executive announces pathway plans for a return to sport in Northern Ireland.

The Sport NI Sports Sustainability Fund programme has awarded approximately £6.5m to football. PICTURE: David CavanThe Sport NI Sports Sustainability Fund programme has awarded approximately £6.5m to football. PICTURE: David Cavan
The Sport NI Sports Sustainability Fund programme has awarded approximately £6.5m to football. PICTURE: David Cavan

Seventy-seven clubs and leagues will share £4,840,162 of the award with the IFA receiving £1,715,431.

Irish FA CEO Patrick Nelson said: “I want to place on record our thanks to the Department for Communities and Sport NI, with whom we have worked closely over the last few months to secure this funding.

“We have liaised with our clubs and leagues to ensure their applications are robust and properly planned with the relevant paperwork and documentation to accompany them.

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"We set up a small internal task force before Christmas to help do this, holding webinars and communicating regularly on our own channels and directly with those who were making applications.”

“We know football, like many sports, can play a huge social and cultural role particularly in times of adversity,” added Nelson.

"So we’re really pleased the game at all levels will benefit as we work our way out of lockdown and back into some sort of normality."

All 12 Danske Bank Premiership clubs have received funding.

The full award amount is as follows:

Ballymena United FC £307,715

Carrick Rangers FC £142,135

Cliftonville FC £184,190

Coleraine FC £366,655

Crusaders FC £541,241

Dungannon Swifts FC £118,218

Glenavon FC £209,246

Glentoran FC £469,498

Larne FC £453,211

Linfield FC £426,754

Portadown FC £114,153

Warrenpoint Town FC £134,958

The full list of funding is available here

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